 carl4beer (394), Fairfax Station, Virginia, USA
Aug 23, 2008 22 oz. pours a golden amber with head that just won’t stop... aroma is apricot and caramel. mouthful is very malty the relents to some hop that is mild of orange citrus. finnish is mildly bitter. rather mediocre for the style.
Praetorian (86), Los Angeles, California, USA
Aug 20, 2008 Amber in color with a small light brown head with almost no lacing. The aroma is of citrus, hops, and caramel with a hint of molasses. The flavor is hoppy with a somewhat sweet start and a bitter finish. The texture is syrupy. Not bad, but nothing special.
mabel (2530), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Aug 13, 2008 [1517-20080711] 1pt6floz bottle. Spiced orange hops aroma also has sweet toasted malt. Hazy, medium orange body with a quick off-white foamy head. Bitter hoppy grains and a lingering bitterness in the flavour. Medium body is very bitter. Has a *bear* with antlers on the label, nice!
(c/o HogTownHarry & blankboy, w/ them, GregClow, jerc, tupalev)
BrotherGrendel (551), San Diego (La Jolla), California, USA
Aug 9, 2008 Clear dark orange with a thick layer of frothy foam. Aroma is big malts, grassy and piney hops, grapefruit and light citrus, touch of raisins and booze. Flavor is balanced between bread/caramel-base malts and dry bitter pine resin hops, orange and lemon zest appear briefly before the bitter finish and dense alcohol warming. Big thick chewy texture and ample carbonation. A surprisingly malty IIPA with a big alcohol presence that dominates when warmed up.
blankboy (3165), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Aug 5, 2008 Two bottles (22oz) shared by me & HogTownHarry with GregClow, jerc, mabel & tupalev. Pours a very slightly hazy orange-amber with an average size frothy off-white head. Nice lacing. Nice aroma which is equally malty and hoppy (citrus and piney resiny hops). Pleasant, dry flavour of caramel malt and resiny hops along with some fruit and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied. Pretty good stuff, it’s a fairly well balanced DIPA and I quite enjoyed it.
amc3000 (46), houston, Texas, USA
Aug 3, 2008 22oz
very floral aroma,fresh, grassy.
very hoppy taste with a little malt to balance. aftertaste was bitter layover from all those hops.
mpersinger (176), , California, USA
Jul 30, 2008 22 oz bottle pours well: pale copper color, slight carbonation, with lasting head the color of linen.
Aroma sparks of green apple candy (Now & Later and Jolly Rancher) and lemony. Flavor profile is quite complex (though absent of apple): orange peel, root beer and horehound, then a severe gripping hop dryness that seems to settle on the roof of the mouth, rather than the extreme sides of the tongue, as most very hoppy beers. The finish is not as blinding as many super-hopped beers, though duration is quite lasting.
This champion IPA goes the distance and is worthy of its "Imperial" designation.
**The label claims 20 hop additions.
Anyone know which hops, and at what point?
P. S., this beer seemed to morph dramatically as it warmed, losing some complexity and taking on a flavor of shellac and a sluggish viscosity common among hopped up brews, so make sure to try it cold.
Delirium (495), Santa Cruz, California, USA
Jul 30, 2008 Bomber. Pours somewhat cloudy golden-orange with a large, slightly off-white, head. Aroma is quite malty, heavy on the light fruit (pineapple? melon?), and with some citrus and woody hops. Flavor is an equal mix of the same sort of malt and quite bitter woody hops, with a long lingering finish that’s both melon-sweet and bitter. Somewhat atypical for a DIPA, with more malt character and fewer hops on the nose (but plenty on the palate), but I like it quite a bit.
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